Timothy Birdnow

I wrote this in response to a post by a Facebook friend but I lost his post before I could pop this up. Oh well; I'll post it here:

For two hundred years Christianity was attacked by the forces of the Left and it retreated from the onslaught of modernity. Free love, which was a reaction to Victorian prudishness, eventually led to the sexual revolution as new technology made pregnancy appear less likely (given the number of out-of-wedlock births since one must dispute that belief) and so sexual mores of any kind simply disappeared in the rush to orgasm anywhere and any time. Automobiles made it easy for youths to escape the arms of their parents and, coupled with the rise of new cultural ideas gleaned from the integration of society and the rise of new media like transistor radios picking up FM a whole new culture was born, sex and drug-riddled and in stark opposition to traditional Judeo-Christian values.

This was the revolution in society the Left had long dreamt of. Their previous efforts to remake society in places like Russia had failed because socialism is a gangster economic and political system and it destroys wealth.

Of course the Soviets encouraged the rising libertinism in the West because they knew it would destroy our culture.

Well, they fell apart first but we're not too far behind them. Everyone is living for today and letting tomorrow worry about tomorrow. And the Christian faith (and the more conservative Jewish) is a feckless, impotent institution now, more worried about their tax exempt status than about actually speaking the Truth. Most churches are. Few actually believe anymore and there is a vacuum.

Nature abhors a vacuum. Islam is stepping into that.

The Left had hoped their socialist ideology would offer the spiritual sustenance people seek and it has to a large degree - that's why so many young people are on board the socialist crazy train. But Islam does likewise and Islam offers something Socialism can't - eternal life. Or so it promises.

Christianity offers that too but Christianity is so Boomer in the young minds, such old man stuff. And they are right; the churches hardly ever talk about anything important. That's why Traditional Catholicism, for instance, is the only branch that is growing; they offer fire and brimstone, solid, meaty, hot faith. The Novus Ordo Church (as the Traditionalists call it) is pale and weak and whiney.

Our current dilemma is caused by the power vacuum left by the decline of Christianity. There is an empty hole where in people's hearts.

That's why Mussolini invented Fascism; to put a spiritual spin on politics. Fascism appeals to the spiritual nature of Man and offers a competing vision to Christianity. The People are God and the government the Church. But it is unsatisfactory and in the end it failed, although the modern Left is chock-full of Fascist spirituality.

So you are dead right; the vacuum left in our society had to be filled by something, and that something is a very, very bad thing indeed.

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